With all due respect, fuck these awful people.

Oh, and with all that said, I have no real interest in attempting this Charlie Kaufman book.

A few months ago, I finally made it through Pale King on my third attempt, and in the afterglow I considered re-reading Infinite Jest, which I loved but found a real struggle. But I have not yet acted on that impulse, and never may.

Refresh my memory, is this the one where he’s wearing a perm?

How right you are!

“Go‘way! Quibbin’!”

A couple of years ago, I stood transfixed at a window in SFO outside which a 747 was parked right next to an A380.  Utterly incredible.

Seeing the almost-ready-for-delivery airliners on the tarmac outside was one of the highlights of the (absolutely excellent) Boeing factory tour in Everett.  I was just as giddy about everything on the tour as my kids were.

This is the one where Hanks plays the heroic driver of a cross-country bus, based on a true story, right? Wrapping up his trilogy with the airplane one and the boat one.

Thanks for this. It was a failure of imagination on my part not to guess at how this could adversely and significantly affect folks with legitimate need for support animals.

Thanks for this followup. I know it’s a real phenomenon, and of course anybody who does this is an asshole! I’m just entirely sure whether there’s a significant cost to the rest of us, so to speak. Whereas with masks there is a very real and inarguable impact on risk to others.

I don’t disagree with the notion that someone unable to wear a mask is likely to be at higher risk and therefore probably shouldn’t be going out. But this line of thinking is dangerously close to the Seinfeld thing about “if they can drive, they aren’t really handicapped.”

I completely agree with that! I just have no idea how you and I can tell who’s who, when you encounter someone without a mask in a situation that warrants wearing a mask.

What is the impact of this “huge” issue, though? That’s what I’m missing. And I’m not playing dumb here; I sincerely don’t understand who’s being hurt. Is it... businesses that are legally obliged to accommodate animals that are not “legitimate” service animals, or other people who patronize those businesses?

I’ll note here that any time a review of an older movie (or a comment thereon) links to an Ebert review, I always click through and read Ebert’s — even if I’ve read it before -- and I’m always glad I did.

“The Wedding Planner opened No. 1 at the box office, and made Lopez the first entertainer in the U.S. to have a No. 1 film and a No. 1 album—her sophomore record, J.Lo—simultaneously.”

I do take issue with your assertion that there are lots of people with “faux service dogs” because I’m not sure that’s a real issue.

God, I hate people.

Ego gratification and, of course, profit.

Like my old boss used to say, if you don’t want to read a silly story ‘bout Nolan, you better keep scrollin’.